The idea was to have the star trails reflected but in practice I would have had to take another half an hour of photos to expose the light in the water correctly. I wasn't about to do that on this cold night.BTW heeeeman has done a couple of great star shots here [link] and here [link] The method here is the same as my pic Shooting Stars. Link below.If you have questions check the coments beow that pic as I may have answered them already [link]11835965270 RAW photos. Base shot 3 minutes at F7 200 iso in half moon light. then 69 shots at F4 and 30 seconds. Batch converted in Rawshooter to 69 37mb tiffs.. do the math..over 2 Gig of pixels. Then combines using startrails.exe [link]Sounds hard but all this is mostly automated. Then I combined the base shot with the sky shot, cleaned up digital noise and adjusted levels and foreground colours.

cool picture what is interesting for me is how the star trails in the left side of the picture is longer, while the ones towards the north star (the right side of the picture ) are shorter, implying they are further away from earth and from our point of view they move in slightly slower speeds, thats why thier trails are shorter.

well i've only attempted star trails a couple times with a SLR cam...an old minolta. the technique i used at the time was just to keep the shutter open for like 4 hours. the lens got all foggy with condensation. i want to try with my Nikon, but i'm scared of the condensation again. is there a different technique i should try? like doing multiple exposures? it seems like it would be quite a task. let me know if you can shed any info on this topic1 i'd appreciate it!